J. Scott Turner

May 10, 2023

In Support of Professor Matthew Garrett

The National Association of Scholars condemns Bakersfield College’s wrongful termination of Professor Matthew Garrett as an egregious violation of his academic freedom.

Science

April 25, 2023

Should Academic DEI Programs Be Abolished?

J. Scott Turner

Thoughts on and takeaways from the MIT Great DEI Debate: Resolved, that academic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs should be abolished.

February 7, 2023

The New Loyalty Oaths

J. Scott Turner

DEI statements are a failure of priority.

February 2, 2023

Taking the NAS to the AAAS

J. Scott Turner

If you happen to be attending the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting on March 3-5, please stop by booth 702 and give NAS a friendly hello.

January 23, 2023

🔒Event: Standing Against Institutional Capture

J. Scott Turner

We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars this Friday, Janurary 27, at 3 pm ET for a discussion of the modern academy's lean toward anti-intellectualism.

Restoring the Sciences Webinar Series

October 12, 2022

Censorship in the Sciences

J. Scott Turner and Mason Goad

The academic sciences are no longer the haven of independent thinkers and creative adventurers on science’s endless frontier.

October 7, 2022

On Tenure

J. Scott Turner

Tenure will only provide the protection it is supposed to when university faculty can wield effective power against the academy’s political overseers.

September 2, 2022

The Closing of the Endless Frontier

J. Scott Turner

The new ethics guidance from the editors of "Nature Human Behaviour" is not ethical. Rather, it is the ultimate triumph of politics and ideology over the scientific pursuit of truth.

Science

August 17, 2022

Cancelling Huxley

J. Scott Turner

Contrary to what the cancellers of figures such as Thomas Huxley would have you believe, the standards of the 19th century can actually teach us a thing or two about race and racism.

June 13, 2022